When I started having kids, I thought, 'I don't want to do anything they can't watch.'

I got into a Broadway show before I ever sang and danced. I learned how after I got in the show.

Young people ask me for advice, and I tell them to do what I didn't do. Get some training. I took jobs that required talents I didn't have.

There are tribes all over the world who sing and dance every day as part of their lives. And we oughta do that.

My wife, as proud as she was of me, hated show business for good reasons. There was something about the spouse always being pushed out of the way, shoved aside. She wanted to get away from it.

I have also heard and read various accounts of why they [Sheldon Leonard and Carl Reiner] liked me. My favorites? I wasn't too good-looking, I walked a little funny, and I was basically kind of average and ordinary. I guess my lack of perfection turned out to be a winning hand. Let that be a lesson for future generations.

You have to be able to laugh at yourself. Attitude is almost more important than what happens to you.